If you are not familiar with the story, Toronto went on again to face Seattle in the cup final the following year and absolutely smashed them. Hoping for a nice redemption story for the Wolfpack.
But honestly, your statement is not far from the truth.

As someone who has lived on both sides of the Atlantic, I have found that there is not one direction of travel is easier than the other. For me, i’ve never had issues with jet lag when traveling away from home. The jet lag only kicks in when I return home.
So I don’t think clubs will have an issue traveling to Toronto, it will be the week they get back.

Both my parents were born in Canada, had grandparents from the UK but I come from a total hoser family.
I was just a big fan of sports and noticed whenever rugby was discussed, that Wigan was a name that woukd get mentioned. And as I said, I had no clue there were different codes of rugby until I moved here and even then, I didnt know what made them different. It wasn’t until Toronto were admitted that I started to take interest.